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Use official packages for 2.2

I sat down to crank out some upgrade packages for 2.1.3 to 2.2, but fairly quickly realized that there wasn’t much point. So much has changed, that the upgrade packages would be enormous. A diff wouldn’t work because images have been added, and a whole bunch of files have been deleted, which means an upgrade would leave a bunch of cruft.

So if you’re upgrading to 2.2, just use the official packages. Cross-branch upgrade files just aren’t worth it.

I’ll have upgrade files for 2.0.11 once it is released, and if 2.2 sees any security/bugfix releases, I’ll do upgrade files for those too.

Hmm.. I usually copy everything but the wp-content folder to my webserver with my ftp client set to ‘overwrite’. Is there a list of files that are no longer needed, so I can remove them from my install?

P.S. Thanks so much for your changed files releases. I maintain so many WP-based sites it saves me an incredible amount of time.

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